A prehistoric human skeleton buried alongside a number of wild animal remains may represent the burial of a "shaman" who died around 12,000 years ago, a study has proposed. The burial was excavated in ...

Researchers have generally thought that only prehistoric males hunted—but what if evidence against that idea has been lying ...

However, because infant specimens are extremely rare in the fossil record, scientists were until now unsure if these species-specific traits were present from birth. To find out, the study authors ...

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Fossilized footprints in Saudi Arabia show human traffic on the cusp of a subsequent ice age. Like carbon dating, scientists use isotopes and context clues to calculate the approximate age of fossils.

The prehistoric Jomon people of Japan had "unexpectedly low" levels of DNA from the Denisovans, our mysterious human ...

A human jawbone found last month on the Iowa River in Marshall County belonged to a "prehistoric Native American," according to the Marshall County Sheriff's Office. At about 4 p.m. Aug. 10, Marshall ...

A uniquely preserved prehistoric mudhole could hold the oldest-ever human footprints on the Arabian Peninsula, scientists say. The seven footprints, found amidst a clutter of hundreds of prehistoric ...